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Dignus 2.20 Compiler Support

Add support for the Dignus 2.1 Compiler. It contains a number of improvements and features that we are keen to leverage including improved hardware support and optimizations that we provided to the Dignus team.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Increase TOS Message limit to 512 or 1024 characters

ETOS.EXE has to truncate messages to 255 characters. This limit should be extended to 512 or 1024 characters so that every message sent to a tpf host's console can be captures.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

New Reference Stop option in the TK Debugger

Request support for a new "Reference stop" breakpoint type. This would stop when a given EVA memory location is accessed by the traced ECB (read OR updated). Support would at minimum allow the user to specify a memory address for a given number of...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

Make the TSTB size configurable

We would like to have the option to set the number of tape status table (TSTB) slots to a different value at SIP time. Failing that, we would like to see a larger hardcoded TSTB size. The number of TSTB slots is defined in SIP macro sptabs.mac:&am...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to the FCAP0009I output message

Hi,As a complement to the previous RFE number 148274, this enhancement request concerns the FCAP0009I output message. We would like to have the tape VSN included in the output message as well: FCAP0009I hh.mm.ss MOD 028A ON 650C TO TAPE xxxxxx ON ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Toolchain support for building code with multiple versions of the compiler

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Synchronized Duplicate Dump Table

Duplicate Dump Table may be filed on disk as a CPU-shared record. While the complex is up the dup dump table may be synchronized every minute, so the whole complex in effect has the same dup dump table in core. The table may be filed on disk every...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

ZRTMC results monitor – phase 2: components and self healing

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Create new 'lodic' type of API for TCPIP specific system load/availability

Allow an ECB or time initiated function to check TCPIP resource utilization in order to determine if the ECB has sufficient network resources to run or defer/delay its execution.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Day of week and Day of month support for ZSTIM

The TPF ZSTIM table should support additional functionality like "specific day of the week" or "specific day of the month". This was not that hard to implement and improves the capabilities of TPF's scheduler.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration